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210. Boy Orator of the Platte?
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Great Compromisor?
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Father of the Constitution?
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William Jennings Bryan
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Daniel Webster
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Either James Madison or Gouverneur Morris
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213. Where was Alexander Hamilton born?
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On what current ship in the U.S. military did Adolph Hitler once sleep?
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On a Caribbean island… St. Kitts?
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The Coast Guard’s training ship, Eagle, which was taken as reparations after WW2. It was formerly called the Horst Wessel after a “martyred” Nazi thug.
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213. On a Caribbean island… St. Kitts?
214. The Coast Guard’s training ship, Eagle, which was taken as reparations after WW2. It was formerly called the Horst Wessel after a “martyred” Nazi thug.
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- Close, but wrong.
- Correct.
Some more… how about other U.S. warships?
- This destroyer was sunk by a U-boat before the U.S. was technically at war with Germany in WW2.
- This battleship made a famous dash around South America to reach the Pacific during the Spanish-American War.
- The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship.
- The first Trident-class ballistic missile submarine was the USS ________.
- John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the _______ ________ _______.
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The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship. New Jersey
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John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the _______ ________ _______. Bon Homme Richard
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218. The first Trident-class ballistic missile submarine was the USS ________.
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The USS Ohio.
To pick a nit: they are the Ohio class boats, firing Trident missiles. No more than the Polaris is the proper name of the classes of earlier boomers. (Though, I couldn’t tell you what the class vessel of the Polaris missile boats might be.)
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217. The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship.
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Iowa.
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Wild horse of the Osage - Pepper Martin?
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The great Compromiser - Henry Clay?
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209. Wild horse of the Osage - Pepper Martin?
- The great Compromiser - Henry Clay?
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Yep
Here’s a couple more Naval ones:
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Can anyone name the name ship, that is the ship for which the following class took its name, for the first version of the US Navy’s Aegis Cruiser?
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The Aegis system was built around the SPY-1 phased array radar. This was not the first time a phased array radar was put into a US Navy warship. Name one of the two ships that first pioneered the original phased array radar.
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The USS Arleigh Burke was named after a famous WWII Admiral. What made naming the ship after him so unusual?
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I was always under the impression that the “S” never was accompanied with a period but you could easily be correct. I had a political science teacher in college who was (in)famous for marking the answer wrong if the period was used when writing Truman’s full name.
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I’ve also heard that it should not have a period (full stop for you Brits) after it. The problem is, that LOOKS like you’ve made a mistake. Like the people who spell their first name “Mathew.”
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What American city was once described as “hell with the lid off?”
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What is its most famous museum dedicated to the works of arguably its most famous artist? (Shares the same block, said a critic, as an Italian eatery where alll the customers seem to be related to Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman.)
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217. The USS Missouri is a _________-class battleship. New Jersey
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John Paul Jones won his battle against HMS Serapis but lost his own ship, the _______ ________ _______. Bon Homme Richard
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Incorrect.
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Correct.
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The USS Ohio.
To pick a nit: they are the Ohio class boats, firing Trident missiles. No more than the Polaris is the proper name of the classes of earlier boomers. (Though, I couldn’t tell you what the class vessel of the Polaris missile boats might be.)
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Correct, and duly noted. The first Polaris-carrying boat was the USS George Washington, IIRC.
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki]
Here’s a couple more Naval ones:
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Can anyone name the name ship, that is the ship for which the following class took its name, for the first version of the US Navy’s Aegis Cruiser?
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The Aegis system was built around the SPY-1 phased array radar. This was not the first time a phased array radar was put into a US Navy warship. Name one of the two ships that first pioneered the original phased array radar.
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The USS Arleigh Burke was named after a famous WWII Admiral. What made naming the ship after him so unusual?
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USS Ticonderoga
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USS Long Beach
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He was still alive at the time.
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[217. USS Missouri was what class of ship?] Iowa.
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Correct. Now moored at Pearl Harbor, not far from the sunken USS Arizona.
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220. USS Ticonderoga
221. USS Long Beach
222. He was still alive at the time.
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All correct. The other vessel that would have been a correct answer for 221 was the USS Enterprise.
About Arliegh Burke - I can’t swear to it, but I think he is the only person honored with a ship named after him in the US Navy who was alive at the launching of that ship.
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About Arliegh Burke - I can’t swear to it, but I think he is the only person honored with a ship named after him in the US Navy who was alive at the launching of that ship.
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There was at least one more, and (odds are) in 2009, there will be another.
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223. What American city was once described as “hell with the lid off?”
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What is its most famous museum dedicated to the works of arguably its most famous artist? (Shares the same block, said a critic, as an Italian eatery where alll the customers seem to be related to Roseanne Arnold and John Goodman.)
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Pittsburgh
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The Andy Warhol Museum
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There was at least one more, and (odds are) in 2009, there will be another.
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D’oh! :smack: How could I forget Mr. Peanut?